Articles on breathwork!

Stress impacts both your body and your breath!

• Stress Effects on the Body (2017)
  

  • "A stressful incident can make the heart pound and breathing quicken. Muscles tense and beads of sweat appear."

  
  
  
• Understanding The Stress Response (2020)
  

  • "Chronic stress causes the muscles in the body to be in a more or less constant state of guardedness. When muscles are taut and tense for long periods of time, this may trigger other reactions of the body and even promote stress-related disorders."

  
  
  
• The Impact of Stress on Body Function: A Review (2023)
  

  • "It can be postulated that stress causes autonomic nervous system activation and indirectly affects the function of the cardiovascular system (Lazarus et al., 1963[59]; Vrijkotte et al., 2000[120]). If these effects occur upon activation of the sympathetic nervous system, then it mainly results in an increase in heart rate, strength of contraction, vasodilation in the arteries of skeletal muscles, a narrowing of the veins, contraction of the arteries in the spleen and kidneys, and decreased sodium excretion by the kidneys (Herd, 1991[40])."

  
  
  
• Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal (2023)
  

  • Breathwork Improves mood and physiological arousal
  • Daily 5-minute breathwork improves mood and reduces anxiety